OK, so here is my first post of the year.
Religions are man made, G-d did not invented religions, men, just like you and me did. Mankind is the most intellectually curious creature on the phase of earth. If you don't believe me, just take a peek at the advances of modern medicine, nuclear energy, physics, computer sciences and aerospace engineering.
Religions were made out of our own curiosity when we could not explain natural phenomena. Of course, I will see the occasional argument about G-d revealing himself to Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and the classic argument from my fellow Jews that Judaism is the only religion revealed to an entire nation. Of course, none of my fellow Jews has been able to logically explain me how come if G-d revealed Itself (I wrote Itself, because G-d has no form, not human form, although the Torah is filled with a god with too many human traits like anger) why, if G-d indeed revealed Itself to at least 600,000 people and as many as 3 million as my fellow Jews claim, there are no more accounts of such grandiose events other than those from Moses and his clan? I see no difference between this account and the other alleged revelations as long as there are no other sources to corroborate it. What was the problem? A literacy problem? Moses was the only one who could read and write? Really? Out of at least 600 thousand and as much as 3 million people? Are you serious? Lets face it, Moses wrote the Torah and all the 613 commandments to give a set of laws of morality, economic, social and ethic behavior to a nation that had the notoriety of having a short fuse and lack of patience. LAWS of conduct for the sake of argument.
G-d never had the need for us to sacrifice animals for his appeasement or as offerings. G-d is BIGGER than that, pretending to accept by blind faith that G-d asked from men sacrifices is attributing G-d with human traits of demand and satisfaction. G-d does not need sacrifices, and never needed them. Moses made that up, maybe he thought he was being inspired by G-d, but that is not the same as being inspired by a faith in a god. By making those sacrifices and following the new set of 613 rules or laws, the people would be able to show obedience, respect, deference an some sort of civility.
The moment we divorce our minds from the man made concept of G-d and sacrifices, let it be human (the death of Jesus washing mankind's sins) or animal (the ritualistic sacrifices at the Temple) and the blind belief that G-d had to confide his secrets to a select few (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism etc) or to an entire nation (Judaism, that no one else can account for other than the writer of the Torah), then at that moment we separate ourselves from such man made beliefs, we will understand the ultimate true concept of G-d and the laws of the universe that we live in.
I am sorry I have to part ways with my religion this way, but I have no other choice but to follow my conscience, which is based on reasoning and logic, not blind faith on man made sociocultural clubs.
I am a Jew of logic and reasoning, based on science and facts, not blind superstitious faith on man made rituals. G-d is ABOVE and BEYOND such things.
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